Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN | |||||
| 406 | 04/16/2006 | 10019973 | Won't move in any gear, whine, grinding noise. *tt | 05/17/2006 | |
| 05058 | 10/28/2005 | 10017771 | Malfunction indicator lamp (mil) comes on with diagnostic trouble code (dtc) p0706 or p1706, engine may not crank. *tt | 11/29/2005 | |
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION | |||||
| 07-050 | 02/05/2008 | 10024235 | Warranty extension: cvt drive belt slippage -- on affected vehicles, the cvt (continuously variable transmission) drive belt may slip during acceleration. csc was received. *nj updated 4/24/08. *nj | 03/28/2008 | |
| 405 | 04/16/2005 | 10016346 | Automatic transmission fluid (atf) leaks. honda tech line summary. *tt | 09/08/2005 | |
| 01012005 | 01/01/2005 | 10014733 | Replace the correct three way catalytic converter for dtc p0420 p01420 p2000. *eh | 05/09/2005 | |
| 10162004 | 10/16/2004 | 10014469 | Transmission mode switch performance. *eh | 05/03/2005 | |
| 11012004 | 11/01/2004 | 10013662 | Got automatic transmission diagnostic trouble code p0706? check the switch combinations. honda servicenews. *tt | 04/25/2005 | |
| POWER TRAIN - CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | |||||
| 07-049 | 02/05/2008 | 10024568 | Warranty extension: cvt start clutch judder. csc was received. *nj | 04/24/2008 | |
| POWER TRAIN - MANUAL TRANSMISSION | |||||
| 11012004 | 11/01/2004 | 10013656 | Manual transmission grinds shifting to 3rd gear. honda servicenews. *tt | 04/25/2005 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN | |||
| 06/14/2012 | 125000 | 1 | |
| The car has begun making a loud noise, when in gear, this is a manual transmission car, but whenever i am in drive it makes this loud grinding noise. if i am in neutral no noise at all. and sometimes even in drive is intermittent. *tr | |||
| 06/14/2012 | 125000 | ||
| The car has begun making a loud noise, when in gear, this is a manual transmission car, but whenever i am in drive it makes this loud grinding noise. if i am in neutral no noise at all. and sometimes even in drive is intermittent. | |||
| 11/04/2011 | 115002 | ||
| Horrible noise coming from my '05 civic lx's manual transmission. noise has been getting worse; started at 115k miles. i have spoke with a few mechanics and they told me most hondas have a recall for this problem. i called honda customer service at 1800 999 1009 and they didn't wanted to fix it free of charge. | |||
| 09/01/2011 | 120000 | ||
| Tl- the contact owns a 2005 honda civic. the contact was driving approximately 70 mph when the vehicle exhibited an abnormally loud noise. the vehicle was taken to a dealer where they advised the contact that the failure was caused by the input shaft bearing, which would need replacing. the vehicle was not repaired for the input shaft bearing. the manufacturer was contacted and they offered no assistance. the failure mileage was approximately 120,000. the vin was unavailable. kmj | |||
| 09/01/2011 | 120000 | ||
| Tl-the contact owns a 2005 honda civic. the contact stated that while driving approximately 70 mph he would hear a loud noise coming from his vehicle, but couldn't tell where from. the vehicle was taken to a dealer and they advised him that it was his input shaft bearing and needed to be replaced. the vehicle had not been repaired for the input shaft bearing. the manufacturer was contacted and they offered no assistance. the failure mileage was approximately 120,000. the vin was unavailable. tb | |||
| 10/03/2011 | 125000 | ||
| Coolant keeps leaking. went online and found numerous other owners reporting the same problem. my mechanic can't seem to fix the problem neither can any of the other owners online mechanics. replaced the radiator and cap, water pump, head gasket, etc... but it still leaks. can you please look into this. there are a lot of people online reporting the same problem but there's no bulletin number in your database for the 2005 honda civic cooling system. thank you for your time and have a nice day. | |||
| 03/15/2011 | 57330 | ||
| Component 1 ima (hybrid) battery assembly failure, not charging properly component 2 cvt transmission, 'start clutch' slipping & grinding when starting up from a stop | |||
| 04/25/2008 | 46000 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2005 honda civic hybrid. the vehicle has a special transmission, which does not shift into gear. when the contact depressed the accelerator pedal, the rpm's increased to 5,200. while driving 25 mph, the vehicle experienced a lack of horse power and decelerated. the dealer stated that the shifter was designed to work in this manner and there was no remedy. the failure mileage was 46,000. | |||
| 08/01/2005 | 2 | 04/19/2005 | |
| 2005 honda civic gear position switch was defective and had to be replaced. * ts *jb | |||
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION | |||
| 10/30/2008 | 90800 | 1 | |
| I have a 2005 honda civic hybrid. it usually seems to happen at 40 mph and above. the transmission slips (like when you're coming out of the tolls). i had the burnish procedure done last in the fall/winter of last year. within the last month, the transmission has slipped a better part of 10 times. i took it to the dealership to get it under warranty. they said they can not duplicate the incident. just this past weekend, between 40 and 60 mph, it slipped 3 times in a row. the next day, at about 68 mph, the rpms stayed at 3000. it's normally around 25-2600 rpm. again, the mechanic could not duplicate the problem. they told me if i bring the car back again, i will be charged $87 per hour, even though it is under warranty. the transmission slippage has been occurring about 3-5 times a week. never when i am at the honda dealer. they told me they can only do something if they can see what is happening and told me to bring it back when it is happening consistently. *tr | |||
| 07/10/2008 | 65000 | 1 | |
| My 2005 honda civic hybrid started to exhibit transmission judder when i would accelerate from a stop and slippage whenever i accelerated while moving with approximately 65,000 on the odometer (my car was still under warranty at this time). i took it into the dealer i bought the car from and they changed the transmission fluid and performed no additional work to the transmission. i started to have the same issues at 90,000 miles and did not have time to take the car back to the dealer but made them aware of my car's problem. my warranty has expired since then but i have learned there is a service bulletin issued for my model and year car. honda offered an extended warranty for this problem up to 105,000 miles. problem is that i now have 114,000 miles on my car and they will not fix it. i feel the problem should have been corrected when it first started exhibiting signs of transmission problems at 65,000 miles. the dealer has told me they can change the transmission fluid but they said the problem is likely to occur again. i have a problem with a car company that knows their product is defective and has even issued a service bulletin addressing this problem but will not fix my car, especially when it started having problems and was still under warranty at 65,000 miles. *tr | |||
| 04/30/2008 | 48000 | 1 | 02/09/2008 |
| Tl*the contact owns a 2005 honda civic hybrid. while driving 40 mph, the transmission failed. the contact coasted the vehicle to the shoulder. the vehicle was towed to the dealer and remains there to date. the dealer stated that due to the mileage they would not cover the cost of the repair. the contact would be responsible for the cost of the new transmission. the vin was unknown. the failure and current mileages were 48,000. updated 06/02/08 *bf the consumer stated the manufacturer refused to take any responsibility for the transmission replacement and even though edmunds.com had a running blog apparently similar transmission failures. updated 06/02/08 *tr | |||
| 01/06/2007 | 5 | 08/08/2005 | |
| This is a 2005 civic hybrid. a few times the transmission has allowed the engine to increase its rpm's to a redline level, then engages and surges forward. this has only happened at highway speed thus far, but could be very dangerous on surface streets. also, i have issue with the wafer thin windshield. i have 3 cracks in it from 18 months of driving from road pebbles. i have 6 other vehicles, they all get driven the same freeways, and get hit by pebbles, but none get the damage as this honda has. *nm | |||
| 12/01/2005 | 2113 | 1 | |
| Ltr fm (tx) re his wife new honda which was totaled in a near fatal accident, the transmission locked up, honda won't assist them or release the title, car was paid for. *ts the vehicle crashed into a guardrail when the transmission locked up and caught on fire. *nm | |||
| 03/14/2006 | 17000 | 1 | |
| Automatic transmission had deficiencies transmission replaced. *jb | |||
| POWER TRAIN - AXLE ASSEMBLY | |||
| 11/08/2005 | 3400 | 1 | 07/22/2005 |
| While i was driving on the street, the axle/spindle to the right front wheel/tire of my vehicle broke. therefore i lost control of the vehicle and i hit two packed vehicles. *jb | |||
| POWER TRAIN - CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | |||
| 01/10/2008 | 83813 | 2 | 05/05/2005 |
| Tl*the contact owns a 2005 honda civic. in an attempt to drive the vehicle, the contact placed his key into the ignition and started the vehicle, but it would not shift into gear. the vehicle was towed to a dealer and they stated that the clutch and sink rolls failed. the clutch and the sink rolls were replaced. approximately one month later, while driving 60 mph in fifth gear, the vehicle slipped into neutral four times. the dealer then replaced the manual transmission. the current mileage was 85,560 and failure mileage was 83,813. | |||
| 05/09/2005 | 60 | 1 | 05/09/2005 |
| My daughter was driving her standard new honda civic 2005 home from the dealer on may 9th. she had 60 miles on the car and was cruising in 4th speed at 45 miles an hour on i5 south in the seattle area when the car came instantly to almost a complete halt causing an intense jerking of the car. she was able to shift to neutral and coast to the shoulder with what minimum momentum she had left. as there was no impact the air bags did not deploy which most likely intensified the nature of her injury. currently her radiology report states she has a fracture of the t-11 vertebrae and to date she is unable to sit, therefore drive, work, or finish her college program. honda has diagnosed the clutch as destroyed and says that she must have intentionally downshifted from 5th to 1st gear while traveling at 45 mph and destroyed the clutch herself. therefore they are taking no responsibility for the vehicle. my husband and i are currently trying to decide whether to have the clutch replaced or just have the transmission put back in and either way tow to car to my daughter's condo and wait out our next move. honda is charging us $500.00 just to put the car back together and the tow will be over $200.00 but if we leave it at the dealer it is $50.00 per day. our service engineer has the destroyed clutch stored in evidence. these 2 young people will never drive the car again even if the car is repaired. she didn't shift at all at the time of the incident and could have easily been impacted and injured even more. so we have a new car no one will drive and so far 2 attorney's have refused to take the case. | |||
| POWER TRAIN - DRIVELINE | |||
| 04/07/2011 | 87430 | ||
| My transmission locked while i was driving. i'm not sure what exactly happened. i was in the middle of the street. the transmission/engine was running but the car wouldn't move. when i tried to move the gear to park it made an awful whining noise. it wouldn't allow me to. had to call the police, who stood by moving traffic until a tow truck came. | |||
| POWER TRAIN - MANUAL TRANSMISSION | |||
| 01/10/2008 | 83813 | 2 | 05/05/2005 |
| Tl*the contact owns a 2005 honda civic. in an attempt to drive the vehicle, the contact placed his key into the ignition and started the vehicle, but it would not shift into gear. the vehicle was towed to a dealer and they stated that the clutch and sink rolls failed. the clutch and the sink rolls were replaced. approximately one month later, while driving 60 mph in fifth gear, the vehicle slipped into neutral four times. the dealer then replaced the manual transmission. the current mileage was 85,560 and failure mileage was 83,813. | |||
| 11/13/2005 | 9 | 20 | 11/13/2004 |
| Since buying my vehicle on numerous occasions when putting the vehicle into neutral the car will stall. when putting the car back into gear it won't start up again until i put the car back into neutral take my foot off the clutch and then put it back into gear again. since the 3rd day of owning the car this has happened . the dealership checked the battery terminals but it continued. does this whether it's raining or not. after several trips to the dealer the mechanic put my car on the diagnostic machine and called the code numbers in to the company who told them what else to do but it started doing this again not too long after. usually, the dealer tells me they're not able to get the car to do it for them so they don't know what else to do. *jb | |||
| 08/18/2006 | 1 | 9999 | 02/19/2005 |
| Reverse in a honda civic manual transmission. the problem is engaging reverse in a manual transmission. when i need to reverse i move the transmission into reverse and release the clutch. a grinding noise occurs and the grinding noise gets louder if i give it more gas while the clutch is not engaged. it takes me a while to try and get reverse engaged and it is very annoying and dangerous. i am having problems everyday with this and i just had it in for a service and asked the dealer to take a look at it. the dealer looked into the problem and said that this is common in every honda civic transmission. reverse does not have a synchronized gear and i will have to live with it. there is nothing they can do about it. even if they replaced my entire transmission, the problem will still exist. i even got a service tech to drive my car and he experienced the same problem. he said he had a civic and it does the same thing. the dealer said when the problem occurs (for me just about everytime i need reverse) i need to put the shifter into first or second gear and then try reverse. if it doesn't work, then i have to try it again. sometimes i find myself in tight situations and am not able to get the transmission into reverse for 30 seconds or more. this can be very dangerous and annoying. honda needs to take a look at this if every honda civic transmission is like this. this is not acceptable and can be very dangerous. if i knew honda civics were like this, i would have never bought one. *jb | |||